US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- instituted the draft
- first peacetime draft
- war was upon us
- needed men
- used unitl 1973 to fill military needs
- after 1973 US depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
- worked in factories
- took over mens jobs
- Rosie the Riveter
- represented women workers in wwii
- nurses
- became secretaries and typers
- farm workers
- waitresses
- bus/taxi drivers
- Army
- WAC- womens army corps
- Navy
- WAVES
- Airforce
- WASP- Womens army service pilots
- Tokyo Rose- she was a US citizen in japan, convicted of treason
3. African-American's role in WWII
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- Marshall-chief of staff of US military during wwii
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in
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